Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:51, dman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:16:41AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: > > | why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? > > If you don't have the "mount point" (or, to paraphrase, "point at > which the drive is mounted") you can't mount it there. Think of

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:16:41AM -0500, Michael Grover wrote: | why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? If you don't have the "mount point" (or, to paraphrase, "point at which the drive is mounted") you can't mount it there. Think of it like trying to bolt a new alternator into your car

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Yvonne Kelly
thers. Hope that clears it up a little. Y.Kelly -Original Message- From:Michael Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:16:41 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Adding Drives Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread R. Alexander
lesystem ... hope this helps. Ciao Bob - Original Message - From: "Michael Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Debian" Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 2:16 Subject: Re: Adding Drives > > Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data > > I was then able to

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data I was then able to mount hdc1. This has me confused? why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? Is there a place I can get more info on mount points, etc etc? mike Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-24 Thread Allen Wayne Best
michael: by the way, there is nothing mystical about putting your new drive as "data" in the root. you can put it anywhere you think it should be mounted. for example, if this were to be a part of a database installation, say postgres, you could conceivably put this in a directory called /db/po

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> Does anybody know where I can find info on ading second hard drives? > > I added the second drive, > ran "MAKEDEV hdc" , > ran "mke2fs /dev/hdc" , > added a entry to the fstab file in the /etc directory. > > But I can not mount it? > > fstab line = "/dev/hdc1 /data ext2defaults

Re: Adding Drives

2001-10-23 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote: > Does anybody know where I can find info on ading second hard drives? > > I added the second drive, > ran "MAKEDEV hdc" , > ran "mke2fs /dev/hdc" , > added a entry to the fstab file in the /etc directory. > > But I can not mount it? > > fstab